Civic Center, Philadelphia

1899-1912
4 volumes, partial index
Includes: "Proceedings of International Commercial Congress," 1899, containing a history of the Congress' proceedings, papers submitted by the delegates, and biographical sketches of the delegates;
"Textile Industries of Philadelphia, " 1911;
"Manufacturing in Philadelphia, 1683-1912," 1912, which includes a listing of all Trustee's publications to that date:
"The Port and City of Philadelphia," 1912, which includes a history of the port and lists of port officials, facilities, traffic volume, and regulations .
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

1972-1979
1 cu.ft., no index
Topics of these files include bookings, the Civic Center Box Office, the Philadelphia Firebirds Hockey Team, public skating, revenue statements, rock concerts, and youth hockey. Of these topics most of the files are devoted to the Civic Center Box Office, the Firebirds, and Youth Hockey. Memos and correspondence of the files relating to the Civic Center Box Office concern its establishment, policies, procedures, operation, revenues and responsibilities of employees. Files relating to the Philadelphia Firebirds include game reports, job time analyses, incident and accident reports,turnstile reports, financial statements, newspaper clippings and correspondence and memos which cover subjects such as ticket sales, security, hockey events, scheduling and staffing rules governing the use of the ice rink at the Civic Centers technical problems crowd controls and vandalism. Subjects of the correspondence and memos of the Youth Hockey File include scheduling of games, high school hockey, job time analyses, costs, problems with vandalism, and security measures.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

1973-1979
1 cu.ft., no index
Memos, correspondence, clippings, news releases relating to the establishment of the Philadelphia Firebirds Professional Hockey Team and Team use of the Philadelphia Civic Center's ice rink as home ice; turnstile reports, schedules, invoices, job time analyses relating to Firebirds' games, the use of the ice, and security; memos, schedules, press releases, financial information pertaining to the appearance of the Ice Follies at the Civic Center; correspondence and memos relating to concessionaires' contracts for the delivery of food service; memos, schedules, clippings, records of gate receipts and attendance, summaries of hockey games job time analyses, reports of vandalism pertaining to Inter-County Scholastic Hockey League and other youth hockey games; requests for convention rates, diagrams of the set-up for Coffee Concerts, calendar sheeets and booking notices for 19741975 and monthly schedules for 1974.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

26 December 1973 - 9 January 1977
4 cu.ft., no index
Events include school and college commencements, religious, cultural, musical and sporting (especially Philadelphia Firebirds' games) events, flower shows, commercial exhibitions trade shows, antique shows, and political dinners. The typical folder includes an Application for License which lists area of Civic Center to be used; installations operations and dismantling dates; price of admissions name of organization seeking licenses organization's officers and address name and address or convention managers and remarks, License Agreement which lists organizations license numbers date of events terms of agreements and payment, Booking Notice which lists booking numbers whether event confirmed or tentative and much of the same information which appears on the License Application; Job Time Analyses for Event Sheet listing event, date, license number, number of City employees assisting, record of
employee, total cost of each employee, and total cost for all City personnel; Statement of Ticket Sales which includes event, date, capacity, number of complimentary tickets, number of tickets unsold, price per tickets and net received; excerpts of Board of Directors of Civic Center's minutes, copies of reminders, schedules of events, invoices, press releases, correspondences and plans of sections of the Civic Center.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

1973-1981
1 cu.ft., no index
For each event there are included internal memos giving notice of cancellation of event, a copy of the booking notice, and attached correspondence. Also included are lists of cancellations of bookings.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

1977-1979
2 cu.ft., no index
Letterbooks containing copies of all correspondence and memos from the Executive Director, arranged chronologically. Also included are weekly reports and copies of published advertising relating to Civic Center events.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104